Digital footprints identify the Paraguayan woman seven years after death

Each successful identification “gives the renewed hope” that other women “can also receive their identities to them,” said Interpol Secretary, General Valdecy Urquiza.

“Our work is not just about solving cases, it is also about restoring dignity to the victims and giving voice to those affected by the tragedy,” he said.

Lima was found dead in a poultry shed attached to a farm in the province of Girona in Spain in August 2018.

She did not carry any identification document, and the people who live on the farm and other local residents said they did not know who it was. Police said he had a tattoo of the word “success” in Hebrew.

Last year, it was added to the Operation Me Idention Me, that has seen “black warnings” of Interpol, which seeks information about unidentified organizations, published to the public for the first time.

Earlier this month, there was an advance when the Paraguayan authorities agreed with the digital footprints loaded by Spain with the black warning against those in their own national database.

Lima’s brother told the Police that he had traveled to Spain in 2013. He denounced his disappearance of the Paraguayan authorities in 2019 after several months without contact.

While Lima has been identified, Interpol said the circumstances around her death remain “inexplicable.”

The woman previously identified through the campaign was Rita Roberts of 31 years of Wales.

The last contact that her family had with her was a postcard of Belgium in May 1992. Her body was found the following month.

His family saw his Black Rose tattoo distinctive in a BBC report on the launch of the Operation Idention Me in 2023.

The campaign seeks to find the identities of another 45 women found dead in the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, France, Italy and Spain. Most of them are victims of murder, which are believed to be between 15 and 30 years old.

Interpol said that the increase in global migration and human trafficking has led to more missing persons outside their countries, which can make organisms identification more challenging.

The details of each case have been published on the Interpol websitealong with photographs of possible elements of identification and facial reconstructions.